Developing Interventions to Optimize the Performance of the Zimbabwe Cricket Senior Men’s Team in International Competitions
- Author
- Sizara, Percival
- Title
- Developing Interventions to Optimize the Performance of the Zimbabwe Cricket Senior Men’s Team in International Competitions
- Abstract
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Performance in international competitions is the most sought after aspect for any national senior men’s cricket team playing under the International Cricket Council banner. Zimbabwe Cricket, with their vision and mission, are no exception although it is emerging that the desired performance is not tallying with their actual performance. Henceforth, the purpose of this study was to identify and develop interventions that have direct impact on the optimisation of performance of the Zimbabwe Cricket senior men’s team in international competitions. A qualitative approach using in-depth interviews was used for this study. The study also rode on the Grounded Theory Approach as its primary research strategy with the in-depth interviews being recorded from 12 participants in data collection. Only participants who have been involved with cricket for 10 to 30 years were purposively selected in the study by virtue of them being well versed with performance and operations of the game. The NVivo Qualitative Data Analysis software (2020 version) was used to analyse, organise and visualise the findings. From the findings, thematic analysis of the interviews gave birth to themes such as grassroots development, proper structures, talent identification, incentives, factors that shape performance and scientific antecedents of performance. The results of the study provided the interventions that can be developed towards the optimisation of the Zimbabwe Cricket senior men’s team performance. Conclusions also showed practical and theoretical implications as well as area of further research for Zimbabwe Cricket in order to improve their performance in the international competitions.
- Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- BUSE
- Keywords
- Interventions
- Supervisor
- N/A
- Item sets
- Department of Crop Sciences
